Tagged: juan recommends

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Somewhere (2010)

Somewhere tells the story of a worldwide Hollywood superstar named Johnny Marco, who’s wasting away at the Chateau Marmont as he makes time for his next gig and lives in his routine.

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Rabbit Hole (2010)

John Cameron Mitchell takes on the adaptation of David Lindsay-Abaire’s play of the same name, which tells the story of a couple grieving the loss of their son. However, the story is far from mere drama and is infused with dark comedy… to ease the pain.

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Tangled (2010)

After the success — or not-success — of The Princess and the Frog, Disney decided to give the old fairy tale of Rapunzel a spin, called it Tangled and amped the male character. Call it a creative spin, or a marketing spin, it proved to work for Disney.

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I Saw the Devil

A young woman is killed while waiting for a tow truck. When she is later found, all that is left is her head. Her fiancé is a secret agent, her father is a former police chief. They want revenge for her cruel murder, and they go to the extremes to make the monster that did that to her pay. But is revenge the right answer?

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Confessions (Japanese Film)

Confessions tells the story of a high school teacher that loses her child. Seeing as she is a very smart woman, she comes to the conclusion that her daughter has been murdered by one of her students.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1 picks up right after the events in HP6. As Voldemort’s plans have been discovered by the general public, his group of Death Eaters must act quickly. Taking over the Ministry of Magic and creating chaos in and out of the Magical world, killing Muggles and making headlines in “our” world.

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Big C, The – Season 1

Cathy is a 40-something-year-old woman diagnosed with terminal cancer, making her reexamine her own life — which includes an apparently loving but too self-absorbed husband Paul, their annoyingly average teenage boy Adam, her against the system bum of a brother Sean, and a job as a high school teacher.

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Black Swan

Black Swan is the story of Nina Sayers, newly elevated to the role of prima ballerina in a New York City ballet company. While she can nail the elegance required for the lead, she’s having trouble finding the passion, which director Thomas and fellow ballerina Lily try to coax before opening night.

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Ghost Writer, The

The Ghost Writer tells the story of a ghost writer — referred to often as The Ghost — who gets hired by the former British Prime Minister Adam Lang — following his wife Ruth’s advice — to help him write his memoirs after the previous Ghost was found dead.

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Inception

In Inception, DiCaprio plays Cobb, a man on the run from the US system who happens to work on what is known as “subconscious exploration”, which refers to entering your brain while in a dream-state to obtain information.